I disagree with you wholly and completely %100 with you notion and belief in 'everyone being influenced by something'. True, pure originality does exist in the universe. Everything that exists now exists because at some point in history a truly unique and original thought was created in the mind of a man/woman that was wholly and completely uninfluenced by even one single outside factor. Uniqueness in genius is a fact. As a Pure Mathematician I wholly understand and believe that pure, true, uninfluenced originalty exists. When a new mathematical idea, something never, ever before thought of or imagined appears upon the world, no one ever worries as to how it came about. True genius is never copied and never derived from something else. As an influence in the world, every single idea, thought, belief, art form, dream had to have one single, original, externally unaffected and uninfluenced beginning. At the Doctoral level (Ph. D) of Mathematics pure original thought becomes artform. Dreams become reality. Pure, unifluenced, original dreams. True originality does exist. A true genius is never unoriginal. There are always ideas and dreams and genius that are not just a ripoff of another idea. There are existences in nature which are truly original, truly unique, and truly never imagined or dreamed of or contrived of before in the history of all mankind...and the universe. These are true genius. True originality. And are true beginning. If originality was never unique or original in its essence, we would all still be in caves. Someone, somewhere will dream a dream or think a thought never, ever before imagined. And these are the true changers of the world. Influence doesn't have to be obvious when it is completely original and truly unique in the world. I am sorry for people who feel as you do.
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The true point of why none of the characters in Sesame Street are of any particular sex is because racism, ignorance, bigotry, hate, and most of the world's worst evils are based on things as pointless as sex, race, religion, and many other things which are personal and individual to each and every human being. Children *should* be raised to see each other as *people* and not stereotypes. Sesame Street does this in exactly the kind of way that even adults can feel good about watching with their children. Each character of the show is represented by their own unique personalities and are not based on biases or prejudices, which would easily be introduced through sex, religion, color, race, or a host of other stereotypical labels and categories. Post exactly like yours are the kinds of people our children have to kept away from, since you reek with hate, ignorance, and bigotry.
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The smart thing to do is not always the right thing to do. If you do the right thing, you are damn smart. -Me I am not exactly sure what that is supposed to mean? Is it just something that makes no sense because it contadicts itself? Please explain...
That has to be the most moronic thing ever said. Do you have a brain at all? Posting from the United States has to *really* scare and confuse you. Countries help out *other* countries in a time of need because people are people and because humanitarian efforts are always put before stop cold war era politics. And unless you have lived in a case for the past 12 years or you are an idiotic, uneducated teenager (which is becoming 99% of Slashdot unfortunately) then you would know that the Soviet Union no longer exists and that Russia is a democratic nation, which has no intention of having a WWIII. Hello, Earth to teenager. Poeple/countries now *help* each other in times of need. Why does the United States give *billions* of dollars to Russia for humanitarian aid, military, economic strengh, and about 100 other purposes? Let that little bit of knowledge confuse you for a moment. Why not just let Russia waste away into an archaic wastland..."Hey, Look Bob, no more Russia...We are all safe, no more WWIII...Oh shit, they just sold all of their nukes to Osama Bin Ladin to feed their families?...Why didn't we help them when they needed food?..." It is called the nature of the human spirit and just simply goodwill politics. Why do we give the Afghans food at the same time we bomb them? Because the Afghans aren't the problem. It is a few people in power that are the true cause for harm. By your philosophy, we should just carpet bomb the entire country until every Afghan is killed. Okay, so what if Bin Laden is not even *in* Afghanistan right now? Millions of innocent people would die. We would be no better than the terrorists. But, if we help the *people* of Afghanistan to eat, cloth, and sustain their families through aid relief, then the *people* of Afghanistan will take care of the Taliban and Bin Laden *for us*. It is called the human spirit and goodwill politics. Plus, since you don't know, or haven't taken a real World Civilization course in your life, Russia/USSR saved most of Europe's ass in WWII. They only lost more people in WWII than all of the other countries combined...by a huge margin. The reason for the cold war was that the USSR never wanted to be tricked and lied to by anyone ever again (read: Hitler and his non-aggression pact with Stalin) and after Stalin signed his pact with Hitler, Hitler turned around almost instantly and tried to kill everyone in the USSR and take it over as well as all of Europe. After that and WWII, the USSR became self sufficient and untrusting. Not that the *USSR* couldn't be trusted...but the USSR *couldn't* trust the rest of the world to not lie to them again about any sort of non-aggression treaty. Simple human defense mechanism. The reason for the Cold War is 100% American ignorance and paranoia. Ever heard of the "Red Scare"? Why not pick up a real History book and educate yourself. No one in Western Europe has ill feelings towards Russia. You write your post like an idiot. Plus, WWIII...There was/is a list? As far as I and everyone else in the world knows, WWIII will be the last war ever fought on the entire planet. No country will survive. Do you think you are invincible to radiation and nuclear winter? If you do, you *really* are funny. PS-We are doing the same thing to China that we did to the USSR after WWII, in case you are wondering. The Chinese? They've been there for 10,000 years (literally)...Why do we all of a sudden give a shit now?...I can gaurantee you they don't give a shit about us. Why would they? It has always been China, and it always will be China. Things didn't just suddenly last spring after the elections. George Bush is the fucking idiot we should be worried about.
The iBooks performance is not *that* bad. I knwo from experience that you most likely have a very small amount of RAM and that is where you true complaints come from. The iBooks do *not* get *that* hot, so I am also wondering where you complaints about that particular situation are truly stemming from. A couple of cheap Durons and an MP motherboard to support those chips, along with the new case/power supply you are going to have to purchase along with the DDR RAM for the MB is *not* going to be cheap whatsoever, especially in your country. Plus add your DVD drive, and DVD decoder card, plus the proper Video Card to your *cheap* PC and you have just successfully spent a ton of money, especially in your country. The iBook is a beautiful machine, with the Powerbook being the pinnacle of laptops. If you do not wish to purchase an Apple product, then don't post comments dismissing Apple because you purchased a cheap, underpowered version of an iBook and then post complaints about it. I know personally that my iBook runs *exceptionally* well for all of my needs, including gaming. Yeah, it does not carry a mobile version of the nVidia G-Force or ATI Radeon chipsets (yet) but if you are truly, and I mean *truly* interested in FPS, then why are you using a laptop anyways? Go and buy yourself a dual PPC Apple desktop and throw a G-Force card in it. Load OSX and have yourself a Quake party. But, don't just go around posting and bitching, please when your intended uses for a machine apparently are more than what you purchased. Apple iBook are beautiful machines and as of yet, my iBook has never, ever caused me any problems, inculding heat, power usage, graphics performance, or any other such problem you and other bitch about constantly.
I am sure in the interest of reducing size, reducing weight, reducing cost, and increasing the amount of available instrument and sensory device space onboard an interplanetary craft which is designed to land on an alien planet within a certain *limited* budget, exploring as many alternative kinds of landings mechanisms is well withing the realm of understandable and highly saught after. Packing a couple of large parachutes into a space craft for landing on a planet with a sustainable atmosphere would make a lot of sense if the means of adding an entire rocket/fuel powered landing/propulsion system onto the same craft would not produce greater yield/results within the intended mission/budget. Why not design a craft which could always 'right' itself regardless of how it is situated after it lands with a parachute type landing? That would/should not be a very difficult task given the amount of incredible talent that is at NASA's disposal. As a *very* sincere and heartfelt sidenote...Policy usually destroys or f*cks up NASA missions. That is a *certain* gaurantee...NOT the entire staff of Ph.D. Physists and Engineers working on the projects. It always makes me sad/unhappy when people blame NASA engineers for NASA's recent terrible public mistakes. Blame policy, politics, and administration (be it impossible deadlines, mismanagement, etc.) for NASA's recent unfortunate public image. Things are getting better every day and by the minute and all it will take is just one immensely and incredibly perfect mission for NASA's public image to be returned to it's former 'moon landing' era confidence. Thank You for listening. Please support NASA and it's mission to keeping dreams and imagination alive despite the rest of the world's problems.
Why do people constantly and apparently do want to mess with OSX and get rid of Aqua by replacing with XFree86? An Apple computer is hardware *and* UI. Why don't people just use NetBSD or some BSD of Linux on the Mac and forgo messing with Apple and OSX if they want to use XFree86? Most/all people including myself use a Macintosh and OSX to *specifically* get AWAY from Linux+XFree86 or BSD+XFree86. What you are doing is just trying to make OSX into Linux...Why? Why don't people just leave OSX and Apple alone and let them do what needs to be done to make OSX the best desktop OS on the planet/market? I understand that Darwin is the only OS that actually works perfectly on Apple's hardware...but why mess with Aqua, the Apple window server, and everything that goes along and ties into that? Why not just create a distribution that is Darwin+XFree86 on your *own* and stop screwing with Apple and OSX? This is *not* a troll, I am asking something very serious to the people at XonX and Slashdot. People use Mac to get *away* from traditional Unix windowing systems, simply because they basically suck in more ways than one. Apple is trying something new to Unix...Better/best windowing technology on the planet combined with a perfect/nearly perfect GUI. Why bring all of the crud/crap of *old* Unix like XFree86 along with it. It feels more like a plague from Linux/Unix than *any* sort of blessing to keep bringing in the old to try adn replace the new...and albeit immensely better. Some old things are absolutely excellent...aka BSD and some things are terrible...aka XFree86 and all of the bloated/crap libraries that most modern Linux apps require such as Gnome libs.
Okay, if you have a girl who sleeps with you on the second date, then you are dating a dirty whore without any self respect. And you yourself are someone who cares less about who a female is than someone who thinks with their brain and not their tiny penis. Not kissing a girl on the first date and NOT sleeping with her until you are in love with her not only gaurantees that you aren't #145 to put it in her, gauranteed they haven't all used protection (have fun, hello Ms. Herpes), and you are for sure that this girl is the one you will always love. No woman with ANY self respect would sleep with you on the second or third or even fourth date. If they do, they are NOTHING except dirty slut whores. If that is the kind of woman you are looking for, then by all means be the 104th caller, because today the male and female sluts all get a FREE trip to the STD clinic. And YOU have no seld respect or respect for others if that is how you truly believe it should be when you are dating someone. No self respecting woman with half a brain would ever consider sleeping with you on the second date. You are a piece of shit.
Wow, this is really interesting reading your post. You really, and I mean really, didn't read the article/website and are completely blowing smoke straight out of your ass. You are amazing. You are trying to start a fight about something this entire story has nothing to do with. Okay, "half-assed" was NOT some sort of direct attack on your precious KDE and GNOME. Why are you going off about something completely unrelated to anything in this story? This is hilarious. Apple was only complaining, and has EVERY right to complain, that this guy wasn't using native OSX widgets for Mozilla. That is perfectly fine...Without using exact native widgets your UI guidelines might as well go straight out the door along with Apple brand recognition resulting from that UI. I don't want Linux to copy OSX. Try being original. Invent something Apple and MS haven't done yet. What, OSX is very, very beautiful and nice to use? Exactly, and that is why Apple objected. Pretty simple. Try reading the story before posting stupid and uninformed shit like you did.
How do you seperate ambition, belief that your way is the right way, confidence, vision, and not letting anyone else tell you that you are wrong when you believe that you are right different from being a "megalomaniac". The definition says "Dillusionment of wealth, power, or omnipotence." Wouldn't you telling me that I am wrong and that you are right also make *you* a "megalomaniac"? And what is "dillusional" anyways? The term is horribly vague. Does dillusional mean the same thing as "I am right. I know I am right. I am believe that I am right. And I am confident that I am right now matter what anyone else says."? That is the exact same definition you could give to self confidence and self belief. Neither or which are "megalomaniac". What if I believe that I know the secret to the Universe (solving the GUF of Physics). Would my belief that I am completely a genius and that my approach may be the only correct approach as opposed to anyone else's approach make me a "megalomaniac"? No, it would not. Or would I only be that way if someone didn't like me and wanted to label me as something and make it sound terrible by calling me a "megalomaniac"? And is being a "megalomaniac" really a terrible thing? Does asking for help even once make you NOT a "megalomaniac"? I hate it when a definition can/could be applied to almost anyone, anywhere who is confident in themselves and their opinions, values, education, and beliefs. Are you a "megalomaniac" for correcting me?
Believing that you know everything there is to know about something does not make you a "megalomaniac" either. I hate people like you. Have you ever heard of Einstien? Maybe you should label him a "megalomaniac" too. He knew he was right no matter what anyone else said. Especially little pricks like you. Was he wrong. NO. Believing you truly are able to know everything there is to know about something makes you confident and an authority on a topic, not a "megalomaniac". What about Einstein? What about Andrew Wiles? What about Stephen Hawkings? You are a prick, kid.
And even a person by the name of Andrew Wiles? Ever hear of him? The man who single handedly solved Fermat's Last Theorem. The only man over the age of 30 to be granted the Fields Medal in Mathematics. Ever hear of him? Are you calling him a "megalomaniac" too. People who don't listen to others, people who go out on their own, people who never believe that they are wrong are not "megalomaniac". They are geniuses, they visionaries, they are people you should always look towards with awe, for these are the people who make the world and these are the people who change the world. Are you going to call Harry Truman a "megalomaniac" for basically leading this entire country as one of the last "true" presidents this country has ever seen. He also didn't take shit from anyone and never let anyone tell him he was wrong. Labeling people is a VERY dangerous thing. Later.
Actually, I don't usually agree with too much of anything I hear on Slashdot (although I do definitely agree on some people's points here and there) but I don't understand you at all. The main problem with AMD and their associated hardware is that Windows 9x/ME/2K does not come with any decent support out of the box. That would be your hardware issues. Also buying "cheap as hell" motherboards will also lead to your hardware problems. I build computers for a business I have been running for years. I build AMD and Intel. AMD chips "burn up" only when you do not have proper cooling in your case and try to do stupid things with your chipsets. I have a Pentium III 500 I am typing this on with one huge ass fan and huge ass fan cover enclosure over the chip and chip housing. It looks and works very, very well. It basically looks and works like a steam hood over a donut fryer, if you have ever seen one of those. That is how it came from the manufacturer. I have never had a problem. As well as the AMD chips which I have never had a problem as well as I have proper ventilation over the chips. You buy a $40 motherboard, an AMD Athlon, and a $10 fan you are going to have problems my friend. Advice: Fire your Tech guy. Who is a f*cking retard and is most likely soaking your company for more than 3 of him/her are worth. I am sorry you have had such problems. Competence would have not let any of that happen.
Please do not mix up and unfortunately actually believe yourself that mixing up "megalomaniac" with vision, genius, and SELF CONFIDENCE is the truth. By your *exact* definition, Linus Torvalds HIMSELF is a an insane megalomaniac. Do you even think that maybe if just one person actually should by what they believe in and code and didn't get put down by comments like yours, we might have a better computing environment today?
On the contrary, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Rice (Who by all accounts is treated like a daughter by Bush) Why the fuck does every post on Slashdot have to turn women into something which you do not respect? On the contrary, Rumsfeld, Cheney (Who by all means are treated like gay sons to Bush who is gay himself), and Rice. Does having a female in power scare all of the asinine, sexist, bigot men on Slashdot? She may be treated like a daughter to Bush, but who gives a flying fuck? Would you want him to treat his cabinet as a bunch of fucking strangers? "Hey, let's go to war. Now, who did I hire again to run my military and foreign policy???" Just because it is a woman does not mean you have any right to bring her down or the United States President. He has the perfect right to have a close relationship with his cabinet. Rice is a daughter and Rumsfield and Cheney are sons. Good. You are a sexist, asshole pig. Fuck off. Sexism will die someday, hopefully starting with you.
I am wondering why you are having so many problems with the 'ports' part of FreeBSD. You happen to be the *only* poster on Slashdot that has *ever* complained about the ports section of FreeBSD. I have used the ports since I first installed FreeBSD almost 3 years ago and have never had a problem with it at all. Have you installed all of the necessary libraries, etc. to complile? Are you trying to compile software written for 4.x series and using 3.x series of FreeBSD? Why don't you just use the precompiled binaries in the ports tree? I was unfortunately a little discouraged to hear you having so many problems. Debian may work for you better because you know it better. I know it sucks a lot more than FreeBSD ports when you are first learning to use apt-get and even after many, many years of using apt-get you still find it has many limitations that FreeBSD ports does not (apt-get will get better). Please give it another try and if you have any questions, please feel free to write or please feel free to look up what you need from other FreeBSD users. Use 'precompiled binaries' instead of source. That will help be what you want. Later
I would like to ask you an honest question since I am about 1 week away from buying my very *first* Apple computer for myself. What are the memory problems with the Mac? I have a PC with 256Meg of ECC SDRAM and have NO problems whatsoever for the multimedia work I do. Could you please be specific about the Mac supposed memory problems and if there are any Mac which do not prosess this *problem*? I appreciate your help and advice in advance:-) Thank you. I am looking very, very, very forward to leaving the PC/Intel world forever with my first jump in the world of PPC/Mac/OSX. Again, Thank You and I look forward to your response.
If you love your wife and soulmate then it wouldn't truly matter how much you had to spend on her. As long as it makes her happy, then even even last dollar on this planet wouldn't and couldn't be enough for you to make her happy. That is truly how you should feel and believe. I do and my soulmate has never lost her smile since the very moment her eyes have met mine. I would and will stop at nothing to make her happy. There is no amount of money I wouldn't spend on her. I am sorry about you in your relationship. My wishes and prayers go out to you and your family. You make me sad.
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We're like the prettiest girl at a party -- all the women want to be her, all the men want to fuck her. That is the most asinine, fucked up, piece of shit commment about woman and your lack of respect for them. Your analogy was a total piece of shit and your are a fucking piece of shit for saying it. Not all men in the world want to fuck every chick they see. The ones who truly think shit like that are the moralless, unethical, disrespectful pieces of shit like you. I happen to date one of the most beautiful girls in the world. When I bring her to a party no man thinks about fucking her. Only the little, sick fucks of men who can't get laid if they tried. Only the absolute fucking dirtballs in the world think such things. You are one of those pieces of shit. Learn some respect for woman. Fuck your own girlfriend or wife (if you even have one). And stop making piece of shit *broad generalizations* about all men in the world. All men don't think this way at all. Most men, including all of the men I know, respect women and respect themselves. Woman are not there just for you to fuck. Grow up you fucking faggot piece of shit.
You ever stare at my girlfriend and I will rip your faggot fucking balls off and shove them down your asshole throat. Fuck off. All men are not like you. I hope you never stare at anyone I *know* either. I am sick just thinking you truly believe that about everyone else's girlfriends or wives. Die asshole. You overgeneralize and someday it is going to get you hurt.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with you that *everything* is a risk in life. Having faith in the fact that most things in life have a risk factor so small that it is by every definitition zero. I wouldn't want to ride in an airplane and worry every single time what the risks are one of the engines would fall of off the plane and kill everyone aboard. Plus, not all risk is *bad*. Without having a doubt in your life about at least a *few* things is very, very healthy and happy. Probability dictates that not *everything* has to have risk or chance involved. There are laws and rules in the existance of the universe, so complete and total random chance and risk cannot completely exist.
I can see that however rated my post "Offtopic" is also an asshole, piece of shit, sexist pile of shit. Woman end up like their fathers or end up being completely independent people. Having parents who are unstable does not in any way make their children unstable. Especially women. Women are a lot stronger than men. Football...Football... Just to let you know. Fuck off.
--Women are nuts. and if her mother is really nuts then run like hell! because they will turn into their mothers. Your.sig file shows you are a stupid, asshole, sexist, bigot. Your Mother must be really fucked up if this is how you turned out. Parents do not influence women just because they are women. You are a total sexist piece of shit. By the intelligence of your post, your mother didn't even graduate high school and most likely had you when she was 15 and whoring around with the neighborhood. Do you even know who your father is? Really?
I just wanted you to know that I don't quite understand your signature file. Without remembering the past, the mistakes of the past are gauranteed to repeat themselves. And without hope for the future, there would truly be no point in living at all. Living for the moment without hopes for the future or the knowledge of mistakes and lessons learned long past is not any way to live your life.
Actually, where I work they use Novell Groupwise. They don't have to upgrade each individual machine, since they can do it through ZENworks and completely automate the update(s) whenever a user logs in. It has really worked out nice for the company I work at. Groupwise uses a central server for storing and retrieving emails. Plus Groupwise 5 doesn't use any kinds of scripting (VBA, JavaScript, etc.) or allow any in the emails. It does use HTML files in you get sent one and has a built in browser window to view HTML files internally in Groupwise. I have found it to be really nice. We should have Groupwise 6 sometime in the next few weeks. It will be great. We don't use Outlook at all and our company has been doing great ever since. We don't use Outlook becuase of all of the bugs, viruses, and worms that take advantage of Outlooks terrible security. My other question is this:
Why don't you just use the Outlook Web-based interface. It has been great at other companies I have worked at when they were locked into MS only solutions.
Logic only allows you to go from basic statements to higher-level ones; it can't create completely new ones. So even if the fundamental axioms the robot lives its life by are evil from our point of view, no amount of intelligence can change that. I don't agree with you at all. I have also studied college philosohy, and while your comments are mostly-->somewhat correct you are forgetting one thing. Education and intelligence can change an intelligent lifeform. Let's say that Israeli and Palestinian children grow up their entire lives since birth believing that the other one should die. This would be a "fundamental axiom" from both people that killing the other one is "morally" correct. Through education and intelligence, these two children can grow up and change how they feel towards each other. Only through blind ignorance can an intelligent lifeform continue to believe one and only one thing. Does the US still have slavery? It was perfectly okay at one point in time. But, through intelligent thinking, compassion, and education people began to understand how slavery was wrong and changed and their "funadmental axioms" were changed. Do you understand? There is a difference between logic and intelligence. Their is also a difference between the ability to think and the ability to simply function on 1 and 0. The world is not black and white. Life is mostly a lot of black, a lot of white, and certainly a lot of gray, and at times all different and beautiful colors. If an artifical lifeform was ever created, it would have to be able to think on its own. It would have to be able to change or delete its entire orginal programming whenever it felt that it needed to learn or change how it thinks. I tend to change a little bit each time I learn something new. AI is not a machine, but an attempt at a lifeform. Although your arguments are fairly good, I don't think you understand the principle of life and its role in AI. Could a system be considered "intelligent" if it lacked the ability to change?
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I disagree with you wholly and completely %100 with you notion and belief in 'everyone being influenced by something'. True, pure originality does exist in the universe. Everything that exists now exists because at some point in history a truly unique and original thought was created in the mind of a man/woman that was wholly and completely uninfluenced by even one single outside factor. Uniqueness in genius is a fact. As a Pure Mathematician I wholly understand and believe that pure, true, uninfluenced originalty exists. When a new mathematical idea, something never, ever before thought of or imagined appears upon the world, no one ever worries as to how it came about. True genius is never copied and never derived from something else. As an influence in the world, every single idea, thought, belief, art form, dream had to have one single, original, externally unaffected and uninfluenced beginning. At the Doctoral level (Ph. D) of Mathematics pure original thought becomes artform. Dreams become reality. Pure, unifluenced, original dreams. True originality does exist. A true genius is never unoriginal. There are always ideas and dreams and genius that are not just a ripoff of another idea. There are existences in nature which are truly original, truly unique, and truly never imagined or dreamed of or contrived of before in the history of all mankind...and the universe. These are true genius. True originality. And are true beginning. If originality was never unique or original in its essence, we would all still be in caves. Someone, somewhere will dream a dream or think a thought never, ever before imagined. And these are the true changers of the world. Influence doesn't have to be obvious when it is completely original and truly unique in the world. I am sorry for people who feel as you do.
The true point of why none of the characters in Sesame Street are of any particular sex is because racism, ignorance, bigotry, hate, and most of the world's worst evils are based on things as pointless as sex, race, religion, and many other things which are personal and individual to each and every human being. Children *should* be raised to see each other as *people* and not stereotypes. Sesame Street does this in exactly the kind of way that even adults can feel good about watching with their children. Each character of the show is represented by their own unique personalities and are not based on biases or prejudices, which would easily be introduced through sex, religion, color, race, or a host of other stereotypical labels and categories.
Post exactly like yours are the kinds of people our children have to kept away from, since you reek with hate, ignorance, and bigotry.
The smart thing to do is not always the right thing to do. If you do the right thing, you are damn smart. -Me
I am not exactly sure what that is supposed to mean? Is it just something that makes no sense because it contadicts itself? Please explain...
That has to be the most moronic thing ever said. Do you have a brain at all? Posting from the United States has to *really* scare and confuse you. Countries help out *other* countries in a time of need because people are people and because humanitarian efforts are always put before stop cold war era politics. And unless you have lived in a case for the past 12 years or you are an idiotic, uneducated teenager (which is becoming 99% of Slashdot unfortunately) then you would know that the Soviet Union no longer exists and that Russia is a democratic nation, which has no intention of having a WWIII. Hello, Earth to teenager. Poeple/countries now *help* each other in times of need. Why does the United States give *billions* of dollars to Russia for humanitarian aid, military, economic strengh, and about 100 other purposes? Let that little bit of knowledge confuse you for a moment. Why not just let Russia waste away into an archaic wastland..."Hey, Look Bob, no more Russia...We are all safe, no more WWIII...Oh shit, they just sold all of their nukes to Osama Bin Ladin to feed their families?...Why didn't we help them when they needed food?..." It is called the nature of the human spirit and just simply goodwill politics. Why do we give the Afghans food at the same time we bomb them? Because the Afghans aren't the problem. It is a few people in power that are the true cause for harm. By your philosophy, we should just carpet bomb the entire country until every Afghan is killed. Okay, so what if Bin Laden is not even *in* Afghanistan right now? Millions of innocent people would die. We would be no better than the terrorists. But, if we help the *people* of Afghanistan to eat, cloth, and sustain their families through aid relief, then the *people* of Afghanistan will take care of the Taliban and Bin Laden *for us*. It is called the human spirit and goodwill politics.
Plus, since you don't know, or haven't taken a real World Civilization course in your life, Russia/USSR saved most of Europe's ass in WWII. They only lost more people in WWII than all of the other countries combined...by a huge margin. The reason for the cold war was that the USSR never wanted to be tricked and lied to by anyone ever again (read: Hitler and his non-aggression pact with Stalin) and after Stalin signed his pact with Hitler, Hitler turned around almost instantly and tried to kill everyone in the USSR and take it over as well as all of Europe. After that and WWII, the USSR became self sufficient and untrusting. Not that the *USSR* couldn't be trusted...but the USSR *couldn't* trust the rest of the world to not lie to them again about any sort of non-aggression treaty. Simple human defense mechanism. The reason for the Cold War is 100% American ignorance and paranoia. Ever heard of the "Red Scare"? Why not pick up a real History book and educate yourself. No one in Western Europe has ill feelings towards Russia. You write your post like an idiot. Plus, WWIII...There was/is a list? As far as I and everyone else in the world knows, WWIII will be the last war ever fought on the entire planet. No country will survive. Do you think you are invincible to radiation and nuclear winter? If you do, you *really* are funny.
PS-We are doing the same thing to China that we did to the USSR after WWII, in case you are wondering. The Chinese? They've been there for 10,000 years (literally)...Why do we all of a sudden give a shit now?...I can gaurantee you they don't give a shit about us. Why would they? It has always been China, and it always will be China. Things didn't just suddenly last spring after the elections. George Bush is the fucking idiot we should be worried about.
The iBooks performance is not *that* bad. I knwo from experience that you most likely have a very small amount of RAM and that is where you true complaints come from. The iBooks do *not* get *that* hot, so I am also wondering where you complaints about that particular situation are truly stemming from. A couple of cheap Durons and an MP motherboard to support those chips, along with the new case/power supply you are going to have to purchase along with the DDR RAM for the MB is *not* going to be cheap whatsoever, especially in your country. Plus add your DVD drive, and DVD decoder card, plus the proper Video Card to your *cheap* PC and you have just successfully spent a ton of money, especially in your country.
The iBook is a beautiful machine, with the Powerbook being the pinnacle of laptops. If you do not wish to purchase an Apple product, then don't post comments dismissing Apple because you purchased a cheap, underpowered version of an iBook and then post complaints about it. I know personally that my iBook runs *exceptionally* well for all of my needs, including gaming. Yeah, it does not carry a mobile version of the nVidia G-Force or ATI Radeon chipsets (yet) but if you are truly, and I mean *truly* interested in FPS, then why are you using a laptop anyways? Go and buy yourself a dual PPC Apple desktop and throw a G-Force card in it. Load OSX and have yourself a Quake party. But, don't just go around posting and bitching, please when your intended uses for a machine apparently are more than what you purchased. Apple iBook are beautiful machines and as of yet, my iBook has never, ever caused me any problems, inculding heat, power usage, graphics performance, or any other such problem you and other bitch about constantly.
I am sure in the interest of reducing size, reducing weight, reducing cost, and increasing the amount of available instrument and sensory device space onboard an interplanetary craft which is designed to land on an alien planet within a certain *limited* budget, exploring as many alternative kinds of landings mechanisms is well withing the realm of understandable and highly saught after.
Packing a couple of large parachutes into a space craft for landing on a planet with a sustainable atmosphere would make a lot of sense if the means of adding an entire rocket/fuel powered landing/propulsion system onto the same craft would not produce greater yield/results within the intended mission/budget. Why not design a craft which could always 'right' itself regardless of how it is situated after it lands with a parachute type landing? That would/should not be a very difficult task given the amount of incredible talent that is at NASA's disposal.
As a *very* sincere and heartfelt sidenote...Policy usually destroys or f*cks up NASA missions. That is a *certain* gaurantee...NOT the entire staff of Ph.D. Physists and Engineers working on the projects. It always makes me sad/unhappy when people blame NASA engineers for NASA's recent terrible public mistakes. Blame policy, politics, and administration (be it impossible deadlines, mismanagement, etc.) for NASA's recent unfortunate public image. Things are getting better every day and by the minute and all it will take is just one immensely and incredibly perfect mission for NASA's public image to be returned to it's former 'moon landing' era confidence. Thank You for listening. Please support NASA and it's mission to keeping dreams and imagination alive despite the rest of the world's problems.
Why do people constantly and apparently do want to mess with OSX and get rid of Aqua by replacing with XFree86? An Apple computer is hardware *and* UI. Why don't people just use NetBSD or some BSD of Linux on the Mac and forgo messing with Apple and OSX if they want to use XFree86? Most/all people including myself use a Macintosh and OSX to *specifically* get AWAY from Linux+XFree86 or BSD+XFree86. What you are doing is just trying to make OSX into Linux...Why? Why don't people just leave OSX and Apple alone and let them do what needs to be done to make OSX the best desktop OS on the planet/market? I understand that Darwin is the only OS that actually works perfectly on Apple's hardware...but why mess with Aqua, the Apple window server, and everything that goes along and ties into that? Why not just create a distribution that is Darwin+XFree86 on your *own* and stop screwing with Apple and OSX? This is *not* a troll, I am asking something very serious to the people at XonX and Slashdot. People use Mac to get *away* from traditional Unix windowing systems, simply because they basically suck in more ways than one. Apple is trying something new to Unix...Better/best windowing technology on the planet combined with a perfect/nearly perfect GUI. Why bring all of the crud/crap of *old* Unix like XFree86 along with it. It feels more like a plague from Linux/Unix than *any* sort of blessing to keep bringing in the old to try adn replace the new...and albeit immensely better. Some old things are absolutely excellent...aka BSD and some things are terrible...aka XFree86 and all of the bloated/crap libraries that most modern Linux apps require such as Gnome libs.
Okay, if you have a girl who sleeps with you on the second date, then you are dating a dirty whore without any self respect. And you yourself are someone who cares less about who a female is than someone who thinks with their brain and not their tiny penis.
Not kissing a girl on the first date and NOT sleeping with her until you are in love with her not only gaurantees that you aren't #145 to put it in her, gauranteed they haven't all used protection (have fun, hello Ms. Herpes), and you are for sure that this girl is the one you will always love. No woman with ANY self respect would sleep with you on the second or third or even fourth date. If they do, they are NOTHING except dirty slut whores.
If that is the kind of woman you are looking for, then by all means be the 104th caller, because today the male and female sluts all get a FREE trip to the STD clinic. And YOU have no seld respect or respect for others if that is how you truly believe it should be when you are dating someone. No self respecting woman with half a brain would ever consider sleeping with you on the second date. You are a piece of shit.
Wow, this is really interesting reading your post. You really, and I mean really, didn't read the article/website and are completely blowing smoke straight out of your ass. You are amazing. You are trying to start a fight about something this entire story has nothing to do with. Okay, "half-assed" was NOT some sort of direct attack on your precious KDE and GNOME. Why are you going off about something completely unrelated to anything in this story? This is hilarious. Apple was only complaining, and has EVERY right to complain, that this guy wasn't using native OSX widgets for Mozilla. That is perfectly fine...Without using exact native widgets your UI guidelines might as well go straight out the door along with Apple brand recognition resulting from that UI. I don't want Linux to copy OSX. Try being original. Invent something Apple and MS haven't done yet. What, OSX is very, very beautiful and nice to use? Exactly, and that is why Apple objected. Pretty simple. Try reading the story before posting stupid and uninformed shit like you did.
How do you seperate ambition, belief that your way is the right way, confidence, vision, and not letting anyone else tell you that you are wrong when you believe that you are right different from being a "megalomaniac". The definition says "Dillusionment of wealth, power, or omnipotence." Wouldn't you telling me that I am wrong and that you are right also make *you* a "megalomaniac"? And what is "dillusional" anyways? The term is horribly vague. Does dillusional mean the same thing as "I am right. I know I am right. I am believe that I am right. And I am confident that I am right now matter what anyone else says."? That is the exact same definition you could give to self confidence and self belief. Neither or which are "megalomaniac". What if I believe that I know the secret to the Universe (solving the GUF of Physics). Would my belief that I am completely a genius and that my approach may be the only correct approach as opposed to anyone else's approach make me a "megalomaniac"? No, it would not. Or would I only be that way if someone didn't like me and wanted to label me as something and make it sound terrible by calling me a "megalomaniac"? And is being a "megalomaniac" really a terrible thing? Does asking for help even once make you NOT a "megalomaniac"? I hate it when a definition can/could be applied to almost anyone, anywhere who is confident in themselves and their opinions, values, education, and beliefs. Are you a "megalomaniac" for correcting me?
Believing that you know everything there is to know about something does not make you a "megalomaniac" either. I hate people like you. Have you ever heard of Einstien? Maybe you should label him a "megalomaniac" too. He knew he was right no matter what anyone else said. Especially little pricks like you. Was he wrong. NO. Believing you truly are able to know everything there is to know about something makes you confident and an authority on a topic, not a "megalomaniac". What about Einstein? What about Andrew Wiles? What about Stephen Hawkings? You are a prick, kid.
And even a person by the name of Andrew Wiles? Ever hear of him? The man who single handedly solved Fermat's Last Theorem. The only man over the age of 30 to be granted the Fields Medal in Mathematics. Ever hear of him? Are you calling him a "megalomaniac" too. People who don't listen to others, people who go out on their own, people who never believe that they are wrong are not "megalomaniac". They are geniuses, they visionaries, they are people you should always look towards with awe, for these are the people who make the world and these are the people who change the world. Are you going to call Harry Truman a "megalomaniac" for basically leading this entire country as one of the last "true" presidents this country has ever seen. He also didn't take shit from anyone and never let anyone tell him he was wrong. Labeling people is a VERY dangerous thing. Later.
Actually, I don't usually agree with too much of anything I hear on Slashdot (although I do definitely agree on some people's points here and there) but I don't understand you at all. The main problem with AMD and their associated hardware is that Windows 9x/ME/2K does not come with any decent support out of the box. That would be your hardware issues. Also buying "cheap as hell" motherboards will also lead to your hardware problems. I build computers for a business I have been running for years. I build AMD and Intel. AMD chips "burn up" only when you do not have proper cooling in your case and try to do stupid things with your chipsets. I have a Pentium III 500 I am typing this on with one huge ass fan and huge ass fan cover enclosure over the chip and chip housing. It looks and works very, very well. It basically looks and works like a steam hood over a donut fryer, if you have ever seen one of those. That is how it came from the manufacturer. I have never had a problem. As well as the AMD chips which I have never had a problem as well as I have proper ventilation over the chips. You buy a $40 motherboard, an AMD Athlon, and a $10 fan you are going to have problems my friend.
Advice: Fire your Tech guy. Who is a f*cking retard and is most likely soaking your company for more than 3 of him/her are worth. I am sorry you have had such problems. Competence would have not let any of that happen.
Please do not mix up and unfortunately actually believe yourself that mixing up "megalomaniac" with vision, genius, and SELF CONFIDENCE is the truth. By your *exact* definition, Linus Torvalds HIMSELF is a an insane megalomaniac.
Do you even think that maybe if just one person actually should by what they believe in and code and didn't get put down by comments like yours, we might have a better computing environment today?
On the contrary, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Rice (Who by all accounts is treated like a daughter by Bush)
Why the fuck does every post on Slashdot have to turn women into something which you do not respect?
On the contrary, Rumsfeld, Cheney (Who by all means are treated like gay sons to Bush who is gay himself), and Rice. Does having a female in power scare all of the asinine, sexist, bigot men on Slashdot? She may be treated like a daughter to Bush, but who gives a flying fuck? Would you want him to treat his cabinet as a bunch of fucking strangers? "Hey, let's go to war. Now, who did I hire again to run my military and foreign policy???" Just because it is a woman does not mean you have any right to bring her down or the United States President. He has the perfect right to have a close relationship with his cabinet. Rice is a daughter and Rumsfield and Cheney are sons. Good.
You are a sexist, asshole pig. Fuck off. Sexism will die someday, hopefully starting with you.
I am wondering why you are having so many problems with the 'ports' part of FreeBSD. You happen to be the *only* poster on Slashdot that has *ever* complained about the ports section of FreeBSD. I have used the ports since I first installed FreeBSD almost 3 years ago and have never had a problem with it at all. Have you installed all of the necessary libraries, etc. to complile? Are you trying to compile software written for 4.x series and using 3.x series of FreeBSD? Why don't you just use the precompiled binaries in the ports tree? I was unfortunately a little discouraged to hear you having so many problems. Debian may work for you better because you know it better. I know it sucks a lot more than FreeBSD ports when you are first learning to use apt-get and even after many, many years of using apt-get you still find it has many limitations that FreeBSD ports does not (apt-get will get better). Please give it another try and if you have any questions, please feel free to write or please feel free to look up what you need from other FreeBSD users. Use 'precompiled binaries' instead of source. That will help be what you want. Later
I would like to ask you an honest question since I am about 1 week away from buying my very *first* Apple computer for myself. What are the memory problems with the Mac? I have a PC with 256Meg of ECC SDRAM and have NO problems whatsoever for the multimedia work I do. Could you please be specific about the Mac supposed memory problems and if there are any Mac which do not prosess this *problem*? I appreciate your help and advice in advance
If you love your wife and soulmate then it wouldn't truly matter how much you had to spend on her. As long as it makes her happy, then even even last dollar on this planet wouldn't and couldn't be enough for you to make her happy. That is truly how you should feel and believe. I do and my soulmate has never lost her smile since the very moment her eyes have met mine. I would and will stop at nothing to make her happy. There is no amount of money I wouldn't spend on her. I am sorry about you in your relationship. My wishes and prayers go out to you and your family. You make me sad.
We're like the prettiest girl at a party -- all the women want to be her, all the men want to fuck her.
That is the most asinine, fucked up, piece of shit commment about woman and your lack of respect for them. Your analogy was a total piece of shit and your are a fucking piece of shit for saying it. Not all men in the world want to fuck every chick they see. The ones who truly think shit like that are the moralless, unethical, disrespectful pieces of shit like you. I happen to date one of the most beautiful girls in the world. When I bring her to a party no man thinks about fucking her. Only the little, sick fucks of men who can't get laid if they tried. Only the absolute fucking dirtballs in the world think such things. You are one of those pieces of shit. Learn some respect for woman. Fuck your own girlfriend or wife (if you even have one). And stop making piece of shit *broad generalizations* about all men in the world. All men don't think this way at all. Most men, including all of the men I know, respect women and respect themselves. Woman are not there just for you to fuck. Grow up you fucking faggot piece of shit.
You ever stare at my girlfriend and I will rip your faggot fucking balls off and shove them down your asshole throat. Fuck off. All men are not like you.
I hope you never stare at anyone I *know* either. I am sick just thinking you truly believe that about everyone else's girlfriends or wives. Die asshole. You overgeneralize and someday it is going to get you hurt.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with you that *everything* is a risk in life. Having faith in the fact that most things in life have a risk factor so small that it is by every definitition zero. I wouldn't want to ride in an airplane and worry every single time what the risks are one of the engines would fall of off the plane and kill everyone aboard. Plus, not all risk is *bad*. Without having a doubt in your life about at least a *few* things is very, very healthy and happy. Probability dictates that not *everything* has to have risk or chance involved. There are laws and rules in the existance of the universe, so complete and total random chance and risk cannot completely exist.
I can see that however rated my post "Offtopic" is also an asshole, piece of shit, sexist pile of shit. Woman end up like their fathers or end up being completely independent people. Having parents who are unstable does not in any way make their children unstable. Especially women. Women are a lot stronger than men. Football...Football... Just to let you know. Fuck off.
--Women are nuts. and if her mother is really nuts then run like hell! because they will turn into their mothers.
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I just wanted you to know that I don't quite understand your signature file.
Without remembering the past, the mistakes of the past are gauranteed to repeat themselves. And without hope for the future, there would truly be no point in living at all. Living for the moment without hopes for the future or the knowledge of mistakes and lessons learned long past is not any way to live your life.
Actually, where I work they use Novell Groupwise. They don't have to upgrade each individual machine, since they can do it through ZENworks and completely automate the update(s) whenever a user logs in. It has really worked out nice for the company I work at. Groupwise uses a central server for storing and retrieving emails. Plus Groupwise 5 doesn't use any kinds of scripting (VBA, JavaScript, etc.) or allow any in the emails. It does use HTML files in you get sent one and has a built in browser window to view HTML files internally in Groupwise. I have found it to be really nice. We should have Groupwise 6 sometime in the next few weeks. It will be great. We don't use Outlook at all and our company has been doing great ever since. We don't use Outlook becuase of all of the bugs, viruses, and worms that take advantage of Outlooks terrible security.
My other question is this:
Why don't you just use the Outlook Web-based interface. It has been great at other companies I have worked at when they were locked into MS only solutions.
Logic only allows you to go from basic statements to higher-level ones; it can't create completely new ones. So even if the fundamental axioms the robot lives its life by are evil from our point of view, no amount of intelligence can change that.
I don't agree with you at all. I have also studied college philosohy, and while your comments are mostly-->somewhat correct you are forgetting one thing. Education and intelligence can change an intelligent lifeform. Let's say that Israeli and Palestinian children grow up their entire lives since birth believing that the other one should die. This would be a "fundamental axiom" from both people that killing the other one is "morally" correct. Through education and intelligence, these two children can grow up and change how they feel towards each other. Only through blind ignorance can an intelligent lifeform continue to believe one and only one thing. Does the US still have slavery? It was perfectly okay at one point in time. But, through intelligent thinking, compassion, and education people began to understand how slavery was wrong and changed and their "funadmental axioms" were changed. Do you understand?
There is a difference between logic and intelligence. Their is also a difference between the ability to think and the ability to simply function on 1 and 0. The world is not black and white. Life is mostly a lot of black, a lot of white, and certainly a lot of gray, and at times all different and beautiful colors. If an artifical lifeform was ever created, it would have to be able to think on its own. It would have to be able to change or delete its entire orginal programming whenever it felt that it needed to learn or change how it thinks. I tend to change a little bit each time I learn something new. AI is not a machine, but an attempt at a lifeform. Although your arguments are fairly good, I don't think you understand the principle of life and its role in AI. Could a system be considered "intelligent" if it lacked the ability to change?